Thiruvananthapuram, June 05: One person has been arrested in connection with the death of a pregnant elephant in Kerala, Kerala's ForestMinister, K Raju said. A pregnant wild elephant in Kerala's Silent Valley Forest fell victim to an act of human cruelty after a pineapple filled with...

Iran is ready to transfer abroad the black boxes of a Ukrainian plane shot down by mistake near Tehran airport, but they will be of "no help" in any investigation, state media reported on Saturday. Ukraine International AirlinesFlight 752, was struck by a missile and crashed shortly after taking...

Three decades after the Cold War ended without a long-feared nuclear cataclysm, arms control experts are starting to think the sigh of relief heard around the world then might have been premature. In recent weeks Russian fighter aircraft intercepted U.S. strategic bombers and surveillance planes over the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean, in one...

China has upgraded the protection of the pangolin, believed to be the intermediate host of the coronavirus, to that of the first-class protected animals on par with the endangered species like giant pandas. Pangolin meat is viewed as a delicacy in China and its scales are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicines to promote lactation and cure...

Anti-police violence protests around the Eiffel Tower have been banned due to coronavirus restrictions, Paris authorities have said. In addition to this, demonstrations outside the US embassy – also planned for Saturday afternoon - have been barred from going ahead over public health concerns. La Prefecture de Paris, the capital’s police force,...

An executive who was paid about $18,000 a month by LafargeHolcim Ltd. to do nothing failed in his suit to force the cement maker to fire him with a payout worth more than $2 million. Timing was his undoing. When his employer Lafarge SA announced in 2015 a staff-buyout program as part of its merger with Holcim Ltd., AntoineZenone hoped he could get...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn where COVID-19 is widespread and physical distancing is difficult. "In light of evolving evidence, WHO advises that governments should encourage the general public to wear masks where there is widespread transmission and physical distancing is...

13 minutes ago For weeks, critics said Wall Street’s big rally made no sense when the economy seemed set for only more despair. On Friday, it got a bit of validation. The S&P 500 jumped another 2.6% after a report said the U.S. job market surprisingly strengthened last month, bolstering hopes that the worst of the recession may have...

Bombardier to slash 2,500 aviation jobs as COVID-19 weighs on travel demand. The Canadian manufacturer may also cut production in the upcoming months. France’s Alstom is in talks with Bombardier to buy its rail segment for £5.52 billion. In an announcement on Friday, Bombardier (TSE: BBD.B) said that it plans on slashing 2,500 jobs...

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has described as almost “medieval” a new law in Hong Kong that criminalizes disrespecting China’s national anthem. Hong Kong’s legislature approved a contentious bill Thursday that makes it illegal to insult the Chinese national anthem. Those found guilty of intentionally abusing the...

Following the UAEFederal Government’s announcement to lift restrictions on transit passengers services, from June 15, Emirates will offer passenger services to 16 more cities on its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. The airline revealed that with travel restrictions...

French PresidentEmmanuel Macron has demanded that Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, whom Tehran has sentenced to six years in prison, be released immediately. "One year ago, Farida Adelkhah was arbitrarily arrested in Iran. It is unacceptable...

Exporting photos from Facebook to any other platform is a mess, and the social media giant knows it well. Thankfully, Facebook has now made it easy to move your photos from Facebook to Google Photos. As part of the Data TransferProject, Facebook has built a tool that allows you to export your pictures to Google Photos. The photo-transfer tool was...

Brazil's death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed Italy's to become the third-highest in the world, as the UN's secretary-general called for a "people's vaccine" to stem the pandemic. The figures from Brazil underlined the toll the virus is taking in Latin America, the latest epicentre in...

Wall Street paused on Thursday, and the S&P 500 fell for the first time in five days as stocks that had held steadiest through this year's feverish swings gave back some of their gains. The S&P 500 lost 10.52 points, or 0.3%, to 3,112.35 after being on track earlier in the day for its longest winning streak since December. The Dow Jones Industrial...